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This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods, and demonstrates how these methods can be used to create a flexible and unique sound.
This updated and thoroughly revised edition features a new chapter on training for popular singing, which incorporates recent movements in teaching the discipline across the globe, taking into account recent developments in the area. The book also features a new section on 'bridging' - ie. using all the technical elements outlined in the book to help the singer find their own particular expressive style to inspire more playfulness and creativity, both for the individual singer and for the teacher in practice and performance.
This updated and thoroughly revised edition features a new chapter on training for popular singing, which incorporates recent movements in teaching the discipline across the globe, taking into account recent developments in the area. The book also features a new section on 'bridging' - ie. using all the technical elements outlined in the book to help the singer find their own particular expressive style to inspire more playfulness and creativity, both for the individual singer and for the teacher in practice and performance.
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CHAPTER
ONE
Cultivating
style
To
train
or
not
to
train?
I’ve
never
had
a
guitar
lesson,
I’ve
never
had
a
singing
lesson,
I’ve
never
had
a
bass
lesson.
.
.
.
Some
people
sound
good
when
they’ve
had
lessons.
But
I
have
to
say
–
all
the
people
I’ve
really
admired
have
not
had
a
lesson
in
their
lives
to
my
knowledge.
That
may
just
be
something
to
do
with
my
taste
but
I
think
that
you
will
find
generally
that
people
who
are
really
moving
music
on
–
say
the
early
jazz
musicians
in
New
Orleans
–
these
guys
generally
weren’t
taught.
–PAUL
M
C
CARTNEY
1
In
the
years
since
I
first
started
to
teach
voice,
and
certainly
since
this
book
was
written
9
years
ago,
the
rise
of
the
popular
singing
teacher
and
popular
singing
courses
has
been
notable.
There
has
also
been
a
huge
growth
in
the
number
of
websites
focusing
on
singing
which
have
done
much
to
encourage
1
This
quotation
is
from
an
exclusive
interview
done
for
the
first
edition
of
this
book,
and
is
included
here
as
an
Appendix.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Cultivating style
- Chapter 2 Anatomy and sound
- Chapter 3 The complementary elements of style
- Chapter 4 Blues, gospel, jazz and what came after
- Chapter 5 Practice, performance, artistry and finding your own style
- Appendix
- Song Index
- Index
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